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From: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Telnet/FTP over TTY port
Message-ID: <1181@virtech.UUCP>
Date: 20 Sep 89 01:46:26 GMT
References: <3623@unix.SRI.COM>
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In article <3623@unix.SRI.COM>, ric@ace.sri.com (Richard Steinberger) writes:
> noise, but I may be wrong in this).  One of the machines is an Alliant
> running a BSD 4.2 equivalent (soon to be 4.3).  Can someone confirm as to
> whether TCP/IP over TTY/modems on Unix systems is possible?  If so, where
> should I look to find the details of how to do it?

It is possible.  The "package" you require is SLIP (Serial Line IP).  The
BSD 4.3 includes SLIP support and many 4.2 implementations included it also.
Since you want to run it across modems, you probably need "dial-up SLIP".

You can tell if you have slip support by the presence of the slconfig
program which is used for configuring a serial line for IP.

Disclaimer: I haven't used it in a while so this might not be totally correct.

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